• Lawyer Paul Harden is no longer the lobbyist for SMG and its facilities management contract. The City’s list of lobbyists reflected the change June 22. Rogers Towers attorney T.R. Hainline is now SMG’s lobbyist. Harden said the City’s RFP for the facilities management contract — long held by SMG and now competing with Global Spectrum —doesn’t allow representation of both the facilities management company and a tenant in one of the facilities. In this case, that would be the Jacksonville Jaguars at EverBank Field. Harden continues to represent the Jaguars. “You had to choose,” Harden said. “I couldn’t represent both of them.”
• Rogers Towers attorney Amanda Parker has received board certification in construction from The Florida Bar. Certification is the highest level of evaluation by the Bar of the competency and experience in the attorney’s area of law. Parker’s practice is focused on representing engineers, architects and owners before federal and state courts in cases involving a broad range of issues, including roadway design, project administration, contract disputes, liens and licensing issues.
• The City approved the $12 million construction job for the Brooks Health Systems skilled nursing facility at 6209 Brooks Bartram Drive. The 100-bed, 76,762-square-foot project is on 11.72 acres. Fickling Construction Inc. is the contractor. ETM is the project engineer.
• Look for the Raymond James sign to be put on the 245 Riverside Ave. building. Dynamic Aspects will be installing the sign.
• In a ceremony Saturday at Cecil Field, Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation to designate the Cecil Field Spaceport. Space Florida is able to include Cecil Field Spaceport and any other designated state spaceports in its Spaceport Master Plan, which includes recommendations for infrastructure projects that meet current and future commercial, national and state space transportation requirements. On June 8, the Space Florida board of directors enacted a resolution to adopt Cecil Field as a state spaceport territory to be named Cecil Field Spaceport. Before its passage, Florida law only designated two areas as spaceport territories — Cape Canaveral Spaceport and Eglin Air Force Base.
• Tenant improvements and the fueling canopy were OK’d for 7-Eleven at 3613 Lane Ave. S. Petroleum and Construction Services will handle the $554,000 project.
• Two apartment complexes, totaling almost 480 units, are planned in Southside. The second phase of Point at James Island is designed as 240 units on 11.75 acres at Gate Parkway and Burnt Mill Road. The developer is The Morgan Group Inc. of Houston. The Twin Lakes apartments consist of 239 units on almost 14.5 acres at 8100 Point Meadows Drive. The developer is Arlington Properties Inc.
• Downtown patrons will have an additional — and mobile — option for lunch beginning today. The City has allowed one food truck a day to serve customers from a spot within a City-owned parking lot at the southwest corner of Forsyth and Main streets. Corner Taco will be the first option, with others rotating once cleared by the City, said David DeCamp, Mayor Alvin Brown’s communications director. He said the hours of operation will be up to the vendors and the allowance is an attempt to provide more opportunities for entrepreneurs and food options for people Downtown.